St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-29
IN BEHALF OF CHASTITY.
Mrs. Francis willard Delivers an Elo-
quent Address Before the White
Cross League.
The Cathedral and st. MieAael's Schools
Close With Elaborate and Inter- =
esting Exercises. q
Several Hard Kicks Filed Before the
Railroad Commissioners by u
Country Representatives.. :,
CHAsTITY's CHAMPION.

Miss Frances Willard Delivers an
Eloquent Address in the House
of Hope. Il
A mass meeting of the White Cross.
league was held in the House of Hope
church last evening. Miss Frances
Willard, national superintendent of the
White Cross movement, as well as pres
ident of the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union. delivered an eloquent
lecture on the organization, the pur-
poses and the work so far accomplished
by the society. She compiimented the
league on the large number already en-
rolled here and said she knew of no
city in the Union that has accomplished
as much in so short time as st. Paul.
''This is a tolerant age, "she said. "Things
can be considered publicly now which
could not even have been thought of
once. Perhaps you have heard the
story of those two English girls going
down to the beach, starting from a
peaceful little village and walking along
a dangerous cliff until finally they came
to a narrow and dark place, when the
nearest grew dizzy, threw up her arms,
and fell down that awful precipice.
Her companion rushed back to the vii
she met knew too well what that fall
meant and they marched off
in sorrowful procession to
bring back her remains. Mothers
gathered their children around them
while the crowd went by and cried
she's fallen; but you know that every
day there are those who fall from
heights UNNECESSARILY higher, into
depths deeper, darker and far more ter
rible. Suppose, now that some young
man had gone with those girls and
showed the one over the cliff; do you
think the other would have taken his
arm and tripped off with him? Yet this
very thing is done every day in this
nineteenth century. We are in the
midst of great social revolution that
will sweep away every inequality be-
tween the sexes.
Many woman is present here who, like
Tread the newspapers and saw accounts
of women being arrested and never
thought anything of it. But short
time ago in Chicago a few of us women
made up our mind to see some of these
women arrested by men, tried by men
and imprisoned by men. We went to
our mayor and laid the matter before
him, and he at least once merited his
title ''the BEST" by telling us to nomi-
ls .
would have them confirmed as matronS
in whose care these fallen ones should
be placed. 1t is fitting that | should
pay tribute to others earlier in the field.
One woman made it possible for other
women less strong to follow. That
NOBLE, GRAND WOMAN.
Josephine Butler, who. in the hour of
darkness, when her only daughter was
taken to worlds unknown, said. 81 will
drown my great grief and devote myself
to the cause of mothers daughters a
thousand times worse than dead" She's
the pioneer, the prophecies of this re-,
form, and she says the work has just
begun. By her great labOrs the greatest
work of the nineteenth century was ac-
cOmpliShed-the repeating of the law.
which placed the age of consent in Eng
land at ten years. Lew Wallace Said:,
''God could not be everywhere so he
made mothers" The White Cross
league, grand as it is, carried on by
clergymen and all good men as it is,
yet it seems to me that this
little pledge in a mothers
hand is more powerful than all these
other forces. Statistics show that the,
death rate among young men between
fourteen and twenty-five years is grow
ing greater every year. When | see
young boys at school befuddling their
brains and,clouding them with beer, l can
hardly rest until some law is passed to
prevent them from throwing away mind
and heart. The laws written on us by
Gods hands are pathways of happiness,
If on we go on as we ought. By COM
mon British law a child of ten
years was held to be the guardian of her
sacred honor, and this same law is held in
twenty American states, in one of them
-Delaware--it is even as low as seven.
The women of England went to William
q. Speed and enlisted him in the great
cause of social purity, and what lying
kilograms were sent to us and how he
was at length arrested on a technicality
all because he flung out danger signals.
Bad men try to make their wives think
that gulf as wide as from dives to
Lazarus should separate them from bad
women, women not half so bad as these
same men.
believe, after all, that the manhood
of America is the most masterful on
earth, and l expect the greatest things
from the men of America. The times
not far distant when the mothers of this
land are coming out and demand these
things as duty to their sons and
daughters. / believe before the dawn
of the twentieth century this cross of
Christ, no longer red with His blood,
but white with purity and innocence,
will float triumphant over this broad
land -